Stop kicking Canada around

6:07 PM,
Jan. 23, 2014

Charles Krauthammer

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Charles Krauthammer
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Fixated as we Americans are on Canada's three most attention-getting exports - polar vortexes, Alberta clippers and the antics of Toronto's addled mayor - we've somewhat overlooked a major feature of Canada's current relations with the United States: extreme annoyance.

Last week, speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Canada's foreign minister calmly but pointedly complained that the U.S. owes Canada a response on the Keystone XL pipeline. "We can't continue in this state of limbo," he sort of complained, in what for a placid, imperturbable Canadian passes for an explosion of ...